Excellent! I remember reading that beer-fuelled line from his amazing website. The paragraph leading up to it is fun too.
Cool to hear he worked in bike shops for 40 years. I feared he was another City finance guy only dreaming of those places.
The Paul Powerglide looked amazing, but Sweatman should have mentioned its key dimensions were copied directly from a SunTour VGT.
Another fun bit:
“When a market gets bland and homogenised you can often look to France for some light relief. The EGS Up Cage was a masterpiece of incredible but doomed euro-technology in the fine tradition of the Citröen DS and the Concorde airliner. First find a blind alley, then charge up it at maximum speed, all the while deploying astounding creativity, inimitable panache and a reluctance to compromise on anything, least of all quality.”
